Statistical  bureau 


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The  World  Call  to 
Southern  Baptists 


By 


T.  B,  RAY 


FOREIGN  MISSION  BOARD 
SOUTHERN  BAPTIST  CONVENTION 
RICHMOND,  VIRGINIA 
1919 


ELDS  (Shaded  Areas)  FOREIGN  MISSION  BOARD,  SOUTHERN  BAPTIST  CONVENTIO 


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“The  Field,  is  the  World 


IN  FOUR  CONTINENTS 

(A  lesson  in  Missionary  Geography.) 


THE  work  of  the  Foreign  Mission  Board  of  the  Southern 
Baptist  Convention  extends  into  four  great  continents 
of  the  world. 

Asia  claimed  attention  first.  Our  first  Mission  was 
opened  in  South  China  in  1845.  We  now  have  four 
great  Missions  in  that  land.  The  South  China  Mission 
is  in  Kwong  Tung  and  Kwong  Si  Provinces,  with 

r.  t.  Bryan  Canton,  Wuchow,  Yingtak,  Shiu  Hing,  Kweilin,  Kong 
Moon  and  Macao  as  the  centers.  (Recently  a  new 
Mission,  with  one  missionary  family,  has  been  opened  at  Pakhoi.) 

The  Central  China  Mission  is  in  Kiangsu  Province,  with  Shanghai, 
Chinkiang,  Soochow  and  Yangchow  as  centers. 

The  North  China  Mission  is  located  in  Shantung  Province,  with 
Chefoo,  Tengchow,  Hwanghien,  Pingtu,  Laichow,  Laiyang  and 
Taian  as  centers. 

The  Interior  China  Mission  is  located  in  Honan  Province,  with 
Kaifeng,  Chengchow,  Pochow  and  Kweiteh  as  centers. 

Japan  is  the  other  country  in  Asia  in  which  we  have  work.  Our 
Mission  occupies  Kyushu  and  the  southern  part  of  Hondo  Islands, 
with  Nagasaki,  Shimonoseki,  Fukuoka,  Kokura,  Kumamoto,  Kago¬ 
shima  and  Tokyo  as  centers. 

We  classify  the  Latin-American  world  as  a  continent.  The  near¬ 
est  of  these  countries  is  Mexico,  which  touches  our  southwestern 
border.  We  have  occupied  as  centers  of  our  Mexican  work  Juarez, 
Chihuahua,  Saltillo,  Torreon,  Durango,  Zacatecas,  Guaymas,  Guada¬ 
lajara,  Leon,  Morelia  and  Toluca. 

Next  comes  the  vast  country  of  Brazil — a  country  larger  than  the 
United  States.  In  it  we  have  two  Missions.  The  North  Brazil 
Mission,  with  centers  at  Manaus,  Para,  Pernambuco,  Therezina, 
Bahia,  the  South  Brazil  Mission,  with  centers  at  Rio,  Victoria,  Bello 
Horizonte,  Sao  Paulo,  Curityba  and  Rio  Grande  do  Sul. 

Our  Mission  on  the  River  Plata  extends  into  Argentina  and 
Uruguay.  We  are  in  Montevideo,  the  capital  of  Uruguay,  and 
Buenos  Aires,  Rosario,  Sante  Fe,  LaPlata  and  Mendoza  in  Argentina. 

Recently,  we  have  extended  our  efforts  into  Chile.  Missionaries 
are  located  at  Santiago  and  Temuco. 

Our  position  on  the  Dark  Continent  is  in  Nigeria,  the  great  British 
Protectorate,  about  the  midle  of  the  West  Coast  of  Africa.  Centers 

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of  our  work  are  Lagos,  Abeokuta,  Oyo,  Ogbomoso  and  Saki.  The 
work  is  amongst  the  Yorubas. 

On  the  continent  of  Europe  our  forces  are  found  in  Italy  and 
Bohemia.  Rome  is  the  center  of  the  Italian  work,  which  stretches 
through  the  length  and  breadth  of  that  land  in  the  majority  of  the 
chief  cities.  The  work  in  Bohemia  is  new.  Beginnings  have  been 
made  in  Prague,  the  capital. 


THE  STRATEGY  OF  OUR  POSITION 


Dr.  Geo.  Green 
Africa 


i HAVING  taken  this  brief  geographical  glance  at  our 
work,  now  run  back  over  it  and  note  how  well  it  is 
placed.  You  will  see  that  it  is  laid  out  with  a  fine 
strategy,  which  puts  us  in  excellent  position  for  the 
wider  work  we  must  now  undertake.  We  are  where 
we  ought  to  be  for  the  great  advance  our  ability  and 
our  opportunities  demand  that  we  should  make.  It 
is  both  a  comfort  and  an  encouragement  to  realize 
that  we  do  not  need  to  abandon  any  of  the  old  work  we 
have  loved  so  long,  but  rather  that  what  we  have  done  constitutes 
a  good  base  for  future  operations.  Think  of  our  different  fields. 

One  quarter  of  the  human  race  is  in  China.  Out  of  her  ancient 
exclusiveness,  she  is  breaking  into  the  world’s  life,  with  all  the  weight 
of  her  millions.  Shall  she  come  into  the  sisterhood  of  the  nations 
as  heathen  or  Christian?  She  looks,  with  peculiar  trustfulness,  to 
the  United  States  for  instruction.  Into  that  vast  host  we  must 
cause  to  flow  in  mighty  volume  the  message  of  the  Gospel.  If  we 
wish  to  do  evangelizing  anywhere,  we  could  not  overlook  this  tre¬ 
mendous  field. 

Japan  is  the  leader  of  the  Orient,  which  makes  her  leader  of  about 
one-half  of  mankind.  What  kind  of  a  leader  Japan  will  be  is  a  most 
important  consideration.  The  obligation  to  give  the  Gospel  to  this 
country  is  second  to  none.  If  we  were  not  there  already,  we  would 
open  a  Mission  at  once.  Our  immediate  task  is  to  strengthen  what 
we  have. 

Where  could  missionaries  be  placed  more  favorably  than  those 
we  have  in  the  Latin-American  world  to  the  south  of  us?  The  war 
has  drawn  the  two  Americas  together  in  a  remarkable  way.  From 
the  Rio  Grande,  on  our  border,  to  the  southernmost  point  in  South 
America,  the  call  of  a  friendly  people,  a  people  of  distressing  spiritual 
need,  comes  to  us.  On  the  fields  of  this  wider  friendship,  we  must 
win  new  laurels  for  our  King.  South  America  will  receive  from  the 
Old  World  the  largest  stream  of  immigration  in  the  future.  It  con- 


tains  the  only  extensive  free  lands  in  the  world.  There  is  no  other 
place  for  humanity  to  go  in  large  numbers.  It  is  estimated  there 
will  be  in  Latin-America  within  the  next  two  centuries  possibly  four 
hundred  million  people.  Will  they  be  Christians? 

Not  many  have  realized  as  they  should  the  peculiarly  fortunate 
position  of  our  African  Mission.  Two  great  missionary  religions 
are  battling  for  the  great  continent  of  Africa — Christianity  and 
Mohammedanism.  In  the  northern  part  of  Africa  there  are  already 
forty  million  Mohammedans.  In  the  far  southern  end  of  the  continent, 
Christian  forces  have  made  considerable  progress  and  ten  millions 
of  people  have  been  won  to  Christianity.  Between  these  Moham¬ 
medan  and  Christian  forces  are  the  eighty  million  pagans  of  Central 
Africa.  The  battle  is  for  the  winning  of  these  pagans.  It  is  a  colossal 
religious  conflict.  The  Mohammedans  are  gaining  rapidly.  There 
is  the  greatest  necessity  for  the  Christian  forces  to  press  forward 
with  a  great  reinforcement.  Our  Mission  in  Nigeria  is  in  the  thick 
of  the  fight.  We  are  situated  along  one  of  the  main  routes  to  the 
great  central  region  known  as  the  Sudan.  We  are,  in  a  very  im¬ 
portant  sense,  holding  the  left  wing  of  the  Christian  forces.  How 
sorely  do  we  need  reinforcements. 

It  is  fortunate  that  we  are  in  position  to  take  a  large  share  in  the 
redemption  of  Europe.  The  New  Italy,  where  we  have  labored 
since  1870,  is  to  play  a  mighty  part  in  European  life  in  the  days  to 
come.  It  is  no  accident  that  the  center  of  Roman  Catholic  life  is  in 
Italy.  It  is  there  as  a  tribute  to  leadership.  It  is  there  because  the 
genius  of  the  Italian  fixed  it.  This  fact  should  not  be  ignored,  as  we 
lay  out  our  work — and  it  has  not  been  ignored.  We  are  on  the 
ground  in  Italy,  ready  for  a  great  advance. 

Then,  too,  we  are  in  Bohemia,  the  leading  State  of  the  new  Czecho¬ 
slovak  Republic.  We  began  in  Prague  a  promising  work  a  short 
while  before  the  outbreak  of  the  war.  This  nation  of  about  ten 
millions  in  the  heart  of  the  continent,  is  destined  to  have  a  great 
influence  in  European  life.  The  percentage  of  literacy  is  higher  in 
Bohemia  than  in  any  other  European  State.  In  this  new  liberty- 
loving  Republic,  surely  we  can  thrive.  We  are  on  the  ground,  ready 
for  service. 

Touching  Czecho-Slovakia  are  the  vast  peoples  of  Russia  and  the 
Balkans.  Doubtless  amongst  the  peoples  of  Southern  Russia  our 
Board  will  find  a  congenial  place  in  which  to  preach  the  Gospel. 
With  the  start  we  have  already  made  in  Europe,  we  are  in  position 
to  make  an  extensive  enlargement  of  our  work  when  the  opportune 
time  comes. 

And  the  opportune  time  seems  to  be  at  hand,  because  opportunities 
thrust  themselves  upon  us  from  every  direction.  We  cannot  accept 

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all  of  them.  We  shall  be  compelled  to  choose  our  fields.  When  we 
enter  into  the  new  fields,  we  should  do  so  with  force  enough  to  make 
a  real  impression.  In  connection  with  the  work  we  have  laid  out 
already,  by  following  the  natural  course  of  progress,  we  shall  find 
our  share  in  the  great  world  task.  The  good  hand  of  our  God  has 
graciously  led  us  in  mapping  out  the  work  that  has  been  done  hereto¬ 
fore.  We  can  trust  Him  to  guide  us  now  when  we  come  to  assume 
wider  responsibilities. 

OUR  FORCES 

YOU  will  be  interested  in  the  following  brief  review  of  our 
foreign  mission  forces. 

The  Foreign  Mission  Board  is  now  supporting  316 
foreign  missionaries  in  ten  great  mission  fields. 

We  have  787  native  workers,  192  of  whom  are  or¬ 
dained. 

We  have  464  churches,  with  a  membership  of  53,629; 
d.  G.  whittinghiii  141  of  these  churches  are  self-supporting.  In  addition, 
Italy  there  are  1,037  out-stations;  258  have  houses  of  worship. 

We  have  482  schools  of  all  grades,  in  which  were  gathered  last 
year  13,866  students.  Eleven  of  these  are  Bible  schools,  with  302 
students.  Three  are  colleges,  with  195  students.  Twenty- three  are 
high  schools,  with  1,250  students.  The  others  are  schools  of  elemen¬ 
tary  grades,  including  fourteen  kindergartens. 

We  have  twelve  foreign  physicians,  six  foreign  trained  nurses, 
twenty-one  native  physicians  and  twenty-three  native  nurses.  We 
have  eleven  hospital  buildings,  and  last  year  our  physicians  gave 
104,271  treatments. 

We  have  four  Publishing  Houses  now  in  operation  and  two  more 
in  process  of  development,  which  are  distributing  millions  of  pages 
of  Christian  literature. 

We  need  122  missionaries  for  the  work  as  it  is  now  organized,  and 
a  great  many  more  for  new  work  we  ought  to  undertake.  The  kinds 
of  missionaries  we  need  is  as  follows:  19  families  for  evangelistic 
work;  19  families  for  educational  work;  7  men  physicians;  2  women 
physicians;  5  trained  nurses;  9  single  women  for  evangelistic  work; 
16  single  women  for  educational  work. 

Our  call  for  new  missionaries  is  certainly  modest  when  we  take 
into  consideration  the  fact  that, 

China  has  four  times  as  many  people  as  has  the  United  States, 
Japan  has  half  as  many, 

Italy  has  one-third  as  many, 

Latin-America  has  three-fourths  as  many, 

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Nigeria  has  as  many  as  are  in  all  the  Southern  States  east  of  the 
Mississippi  River. 

Bohemia  has  as  many  as  Virginia,  North  Carolina  and  South 
Carolina. 

Surely  we  cannot  be  counted  as  extravagant  when  we  ask  for  122 
new  missionaries  to  go  into  these  populations,  which  total  more  than 
five  times  as  many  people  as  there  are  in  the  United  States.  We 
could  not  ask  for  fewer. 

We  have  done  much  toward  erecting  buildings  and  providing 
equipment  for  our  missionary  force,  but  we  are  far  behind  in  our 
building  and  equipment  program.  A  great  many  church  buildings 
are  needed.  Every  school  we  have  in  the  world  needs  other  buildings 
and  more  equipment.  We  need  residences  for  missionaries  in  practi¬ 
cally  every  station  we  occupy  on  the  face  of  the  earth.  If  we  could 
provide  the  buildings  and  equipment  for  which  our  missionaries  are 
now  asking,  it  is  estimated  that  we  could  increase  the  efficiency  of 
our  present  missionary  force  at  least  three-fold.  Wouldn’t  it  be 
splendid  to  send  out  the  reinforcements  now  requested  and  multiply 
by  three  the  effectiveness  of  those  we  already  have? 

If  Southern  Baptists  should  raise  a  million  and  a  half  dollars  this 
year  for  foreign  missions  we  can  meet  the  most  urgent  needs  for  new 
missionaries  and  provide  additional  equipment  to  such  an  extent 
that  we  shall  be  in  good  position  for  making  a  decided  advance  in 
our  mission  work. 


THE  CALL  OF  THE  HOUR 


W.  B.  Bagby 
Brazil 


'THE  Foreign  Mission  Board  finds  itself  in  a  most  serious 
situation.  There  are  a  number  of  features  of  this 
situation  which  should  receive  the  most  thoughtful 
and  careful  attention  of  our  brethren. 

1.  Our  denomination  has  neglected  for  many  years 
to  provide  a  sufficient  number  of  missionaries  and  a 
sufficient  amount  of  equipment  even  for  those  it  sent 
forth.  These  facts  have  given  to  the  needs  of  our  fields 
a  strained  urgency  which  makes  it  practically  impossible 
for  us  to  deny  them.  They  must  not  be  forced  to  wait  any  longer. 

2.  Another  fact  that  contributes  to  the  tenseness  of  our  foreign 
mission  situation  is  that  our  work  has  grown  at  such  a  rapid  rate  that 
we  are  having  great  embarrassment  in  caring  for  it.  We  have  not 
sufficient  men  to  supervise  and  to  meet  the  new  demands  that  rise 
out  of  our  growing  work.  If  God  has  enlarged  us  on  so  little,  what 
might  we  expect  were  we  to  carry  forward  His  work  as  we  are  able  to  do? 

3.  The  World  War  has  diffused  a  wonderful  spirit  of  inquiry 
throughout  all  the  world.  Great  changes  have  been  wrought;  all 


doors  have  been  opened;  the  opportunity  of  the  ages  has  come  for 
shaping  the  most  plastic  state  of  mind  that  has  ever  existed  in  the 
earth.  Surely,  the  most  urgent  hour  for  preaching  the  Gospel  is  at  hand. 

4.  In  this  time  when  Democracy  is  spreading  over  the  earth, 
we  find  our  day  of  Baptist  opportunity.  If  we  believe  in  our  message 
we  should  be  ready  to  set  it  forth  in  a  worthy  way.  To  halt  now  is 
to  discount  our  faith.  The  measure  of  our  sacrifice  now  will  be  the 
measure  of  our  sympathy  for  the  crying  needs  of  mankind  and  of  our 
gratitude  for  the  favor  of  God.  This  is  the  testing  time  of  our  devo¬ 
tion.  Shall  we,  as  faithful  men  and  women,  go  to  the  very  limits  of 
our  ability  to  press  forward  our  glorious  cause  in  this  wonderful 
day  of  Baptist  opportunity? 

5.  Our  situation  is  so  critical  that  we  must  not  fail  to  raise  the 
one  million,  five  hundred  thousand  dollars  set  for  our  goal  for  foreign 
missions  this  year.  Manifestly,  we  must,  first  of  all,  take  care  of 
the  work  already  undertaken.  The  one  million,  five  hundred  thous¬ 
and  dollars  will  provide  for  the  current  expenses  of  the  work.  It 
will  send  out  at  least  fifty  new  missionaries.  It  will,  in  connection 
with  the  Judson  Centennial  Fund,  so  equip  our  work  that  we  shall 
be  able  to  go  forward  mightily. 

Besides  all  this,  the  one  million,  five  hundred  thousand  dollars 
will  enable  us  to  enter  some  new  fields.  Certainly,  Southern  Baptists 
wish  to  have  a  good  and  faithful  part  in  the  larger  program  at  this 
critical  time  in  the  world’s  history.  The  raising  of  the  one  million 
and  a  half  would  enable  us  to  make  a  beginning  in  some  desperately 
needy  fields.  Surely,  surely,  surely,  in  this  hour  when  the  spiritual 
destiny  of  such  multitudes  hinges  upon  our  faithfulness,  we  will  not 
raise  less  than  a  million  and  a  half  dollars  for  foreign  missions.  Every 
consideration  that  can  be  imagined  calls  for  the  putting  forth  of  our 
utmost  effort  this  year. 

6.  According  to  their  habits  of  raising  money,  Southern  Baptists 
gather  the  larger  portion  of  their  foreign  mission  offerings  during 
the  months  of  January,  February,  March  and  April.  This  is  a  very 
short  time  in  which  to  crowd  the  interests  of  this  greatest  of  all  our 
enterprises.  Even  so,  we  can  accomplish  our  task.  But  to  do  it, 
every  resource  must  be  employed  and  the  greatest  care  exercised  to 
make  certain  a  successful  effort.  Let  us  leave  nothing  to  accident. 
Let  us  pray.  Let  us  make  our  plans  to  take  our  offerings  early  and 
then  to  glean  to  the  last  dollar  in  order  that  we  may  win  a  crowning 
victory  this  year.  By  raising  this  one  million,  five  hundred  thousand 
dollars,  we  shall  infuse  life  and  power  into  our  missionaries  at  the 
front  and  marshal  our  hosts  for  a  great  forward  movement  in  foreign 
missions.  Above  all  things,  we  must  raise  the  total  of  one  and  one- 
half  millions  this  year.  Let  every  one  of  us  do  his  duty. 

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